Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum wants parents to be extra super-duper sure that the video games they buy this holiday season for their children are age-appropriate.

In an advisory released today, he encourages the more than 40 percent of Americans who are expected to buy computer or video games this year to check the Entertainment Software Rating Board before plunking down cash or plastic for any game that will be given to a child.

"The ESRB rating system provides parents and others with age and content information which can be informative tools when purchasing games for family and friends," McCollum said in a prepared statement.

The ESRB, a nonprofit body established in 1994 by the Entertainment Software Association, has supplemented its ratings system with new summaries that include descriptions of games’ content and surrounding context that may be of interest to parents. The summaries are available at ESRB.org.